AN ARTIST OF WORLD RENOWN
Alfred Hrdlicka designs the sets for
"König Kandaules"
Gütersloh, Dobrowsky and Wotruba were his teachers
Alfred Hrdlicka was born in Vienna and studied painting with Gütersloh and Dobrowsky, and sculpture with Wotruba at the Academy of Fine Arts. Hrdlicka first exhibited his works in Vienna in 1960 and rapidly made a name for himself as an artist of international standing. For 25 years he taught at the academies of art in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin and until 1996 at the University of Applied Art in Vienna.
Monument against war and fascism
Art in the public space: in 1981 his Angel Monument was erected in Wuppertal, the Anti-Monument in Hamburg in 1984 (Hamburg Fire Tower in 1983), Cap Arcona in 1986 and in 1988 the first part of the Monument Against War and Fascism was unveiled in Vienna – this was completed in 1991.
Hrdlicka designed some sensational stage sets for Faust I and Faust II in Bonn (1982), for Intolleranza for the Stuttgart State Opera (1992), King Lear in the Cologne Schauspielhaus (1994) and recently for Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Meiningen Theatre (2001). Now he has designed the sets for the new production of König Kandaules at this year’s Salzburg Festival.
The premiere of Alexander Zemlinsky’s opera Der König Kandaules,
staged by Christine Mielitz takes place on 28 July 2002 in the Kleines
Festspielhaus. Kent Nagano conducts the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin.
There will be a chance to hear Alfred Hrdlicka in conversation on 29 July
2002 at 11.30 a.m. in the Schüttkasten.
This event is organised by the Friends Association.
The internationally
highly acclaimed sculptor has designed
the sets for König Kandaules